/*
Rilego - An easy Images 2 E-Book converter.
Copyright (C) 2011  Federico Improta (Kirys)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA
*/

package it.kirys.rilego.engine.processors.transformers;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

/**
 * Splitter interface, any implementer is splitting behavior, the number of part
 * and order depends on the implemented class. this way it will be possible to
 * implements many different splitting behaviors.
 * @author Federico Improta
 */
public interface IImageSplitter {
	/**
	 * Split an image
	 * @param source image to split
	 * @return an array of images that is the result of the splitting process
	 */
	BufferedImage[] split(BufferedImage source);

}
